Pre-Employment Tests to Improve the Quality
Of Candidates by Ira Wolfe.You've likely heard and read a lot of propaganda
about the virtues of pre-employment tests. But you probably haven't
read about the following benefit:What I offer this week is an observation
I have had with clients using our services and pre-employment tests
for three or more years. When we first introduced pre-employment tests
into their hiring process, a considerable number of top candidates
were being rejected. On the one hand, this was good news the assessments
were doing their job, exposing traits or skills of candidates that
didn't fit the job, team or company culture.
On the other hand, our clients wondered if we were going to reject
all their candidates and just run up a bill for more pre-employment
tests.Fortunately, they trusted us enough to move forward and eventually
we confirmed a candidate who met their job fit criteria.Now let's
turn the clock forward to the present time pre-employment tests. Our
client presents two candidates. I take a quick peek at the results
and find the behavioral styles, business motivators, personality traits
and cognitive abilities nearly identical. At this point the interviews
and reference checks can focus on the subtle personality and attitude
differences, resulting in a very predictive screen.This client's experience
is not alone. Based on what our clients learn from the pre-employment
tests of previous job candidates, they use that knowledge to improve
screening and interviewing of future candidates.
The result is that poor fits are eliminated earlier and the quality
of the final candidates improves dramatically.One client summed it
up this way: "We used to hope to identify one candidate who met
our criteria. Too often we had to compromise our standards to fill
a vacancy. Today, even in this tight job market, we find our screening
process so good thanks to the pre-employment tests that we end up
with two or three candidates we'd hire.click
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